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The differences with DRI2 GPU offloading are: a) There's no logic for GPU offloading needed in the Xserver b) for DRI2, the card would render to a back buffer, and the content would be copied to the front buffer (the same buffers everytime). Here we can potentially use several back buffers and copy to buffers with no tiling to share with X. We send them with the Present extension. That means than the DRI2 solution is forced to have tearings with GPU offloading. In the ideal scenario, this DRI3 solution doesn't have this problem. However without dma-buf fences, a race can appear (if the card is slow and the rendering hasn't finished before the server card reads the buffer), and then old content is displayed. If a user hits this, he should probably revert to the DRI2 solution (LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE). Users with cards fast enough seem to not hit this in practice (I have an Amd hd 7730m, and I don't hit this, except if I force a low dpm mode) c) for non-fullscreen apps, the DRI2 GPU offloading solution requires compositing. This DRI3 solution doesn't have this requirement. Rendering to a pixmap also works. d) There is no need to have a DDX loaded for the secondary card. V4: Fixes some piglit tests Signed-off-by: Axel Davy <axel.davy@ens.fr> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
File: docs/README.WIN32 Last updated: 21 June 2013 Quick Start ----- ----- Windows drivers are build with SCons. Makefiles or Visual Studio projects are no longer shipped or supported. Run scons osmesa mesagdi to build classic mesa Windows GDI drivers; or scons libgl-gdi to build gallium based GDI driver. This will work both with MSVS or Mingw. Windows Drivers ------- ------- At this time, only the gallium GDI driver is known to work. Source code also exists in the tree for other drivers in src/mesa/drivers/windows, but the status of this code is unknown. Recipe ------ Building on windows requires several open-source packages. These are steps that work as of this writing. - install python 2.7 - install scons (latest) - install mingw, flex, and bison - install pywin32 from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs get pywin32-218.4.win-amd64-py2.7.exe - install git - download mesa from git see http://www.mesa3d.org/repository.html - run scons General ------- After building, you can copy the above DLL files to a place in your PATH such as $SystemRoot/SYSTEM32. If you don't like putting things in a system directory, place them in the same directory as the executable(s). Be careful about accidentially overwriting files of the same name in the SYSTEM32 directory. The DLL files are built so that the external entry points use the stdcall calling convention. Static LIB files are not built. The LIB files that are built with are the linker import files associated with the DLL files. The si-glu sources are used to build the GLU libs. This was done mainly to get the better tessellator code. If you have a Windows-related build problem or question, please post to the mesa-dev or mesa-users list.